nullDC

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nullDC
nullDC running the game Ikaruga
Developed by	drkIIRaziel and ZeZu
Latest release	v1.0.0 Beta 1.6 / November 7, 2007
OS	Microsoft Windows
Genre	Emulator
Website	ngemu.com

nullDC is a freeware Sega Dreamcast emulator for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista systems; it is new and under active development.

1 Features
2 History
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Features

NullDC uses the latest version of DirectX 9.0c and the latest Visual C++ runtime libraries. As usual for emulators, a dump of the original console BIOS is also needed. It has a plugin architecture, with several alternative implementations (some ported from Chankast) for graphics, sound, reading games burned to CD-ROMs (it cannot read GD-ROMs directly) or disk image files, memory cards etc.

[edit] History

The emulator was first announced on February 19, 2006.

On August 25, 2006 the first screenshots were released, the authors were revealed to be ZeZu (programmer of Icarus, a Dreamcast emulator which was never released) and drk||Raziel, it was explained that the emulator would aim at compatibility more than speed, and would use a plugin structure to allow other authors to contribute.

The first version (v1.0.0 BETA) was released on April 1, 2007, and proved itself to be the Dreamcast emulator with the highest compatibility to date.

The second version (beta 1.5) was released on November 4, 2007. It added support for game pads, but the sound did not work and had other bugs (in the author's words, it was "crashy, buggy, shitty" ^[1]).

A third version (beta 1.6) was released after few days, on November 7, 2007. This version included a new audio plugin and several bug fixes.

A new plugin and video shader for nullDC were released on January 10, 2008, to fix some display bugs and add the support for stereoscopy as per the specifics of the nVidia stereo 3D drivers.